Jude 1:12-19 - The Apostates' Doom

12 They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame; wandering stars that are forever doomed to utter darkness.

14 It was about such men also that Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied when he said: "See! The Lord comes with myriads of His people 15 to execute judgment upon all, to convict all the godless of their godless deeds which in their godlessness they have committed, and of all the harsh things that godless sinners have said against Him."

16 These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.

17 But you, dearly beloved, must remember the words that have already been spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 because they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will live to satisfy their own godless passions." 19 These are men who cause divisions; mere animals, destitute of any spiritual nature,